Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life

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T. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker
Texas A&M University Press, 1997 - Всего страниц: 162
"I's born in Palestine Texas. I don't know how old I is. I was 9 years old when freedom cried out."

These poignant words begin the memories of a former Texas slave interviewed by W.P.A. field workers in Oklahoma during the 1930s. This account, along with thirty-two additional oral histories recorded as part of the Federal Writers' Project, describes life as a Texas slave--the family relations, entertainment, religion, work on the plantations, foodways, and punishment.

For decades the bondage of black slaves to white masters was part of everyday life in Texas, and by the eve of the Civil War almost one-third of the total population consisted of slaves.

Most works about slavery have been written from the white viewpoint, since most slaves were kept illiterate. This collection offers a clear-eyed perspective on this institution from the slaves themselves--their recollections from being sold away from their parents, suffering the pain of the overseers' lash, and being chosen to gratify masters' desires to finding emotional release in religious services, appreciating music and dancing, and enjoying an brief escape to the woods. Vignettes of daily life are sensitively brought to life in the skilled drawings of artist Kermit Oliver.

Enriched by these illustrations and by an introduction and postscript commentary by editors T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P.Baker, Till Freedom Cried Out presents vivid memories of lives and times inside the bonds of an institution that tried to break the tellers' bodies and souls.
 

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L B BarnerLewis Bonner
1797
Francis Frances Bridges
1801
Esther Easter
1804
Eliza Elsey
1808
Lizzie Farmer
1811
Sonny Greer
1819
Mattie Hardman
1821
George W Harmon
1823
Alice Rawlings
1872
Red Richardson
1875
Harriett Robinson
1877
Andrew Simms
1882
Liza Smith
1884
Lou Smith
1886
Mose Smith
1893
J W Stinnett
1896

Annie Hawkins
1825
Ida Henry
1828
Lewis Jenkins
1832
Mary Lindsay
1837
Bert Luster
1844
Allen V Manning
1847
Bob Maynard
1854
Amanda Oliver
1858
Noah Perry
1860
Phyllis Petite
1867
Beauregard Tenneyson
1897
Johnson Thompson
1899
Mollie Watson
1902
Easter Wells
1909
John White
1914
Acemy Wofford
1922
Commentary
1923
Bibliography
1941
Index
117
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Стр. 1781 - My father's columns and papers are now held at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. In the present volume, his articles appear as originally published, with no substantive changes. Since his editors sometimes were inconsistent in spelling a word such as "programming," I have reconciled these discrepancies.

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T. Lindsay Baker has written many books on western and Texas history and material culture. He is director of academic programs and graduate studies for the Department of Museum Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.Julie P. Baker received her master's degree from the University of Oklahoma. She is the director of the Layland Museum in Cleburne, Texas.Kermit Oliver, who received his bachelor's degree from Texas Southern University in 1967, has illustrated two previous books. He lives and works in Waco.

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